I love to talk to people who love to talk. The warmth, the energy, the humanity.

One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.

The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit.

Philosophers console themselves with explanations.

The search for first causes is the ultimate wild goose chase.

When you separate thought from life, you get philosophy.

Logical positivism is philosophy from the neck up.

The questions philosophers ask are not so much meaningless as irrelevant.

No explanation is ever as good as not having one.

The truth is what you live through while you're looking for the truth.

Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth.

When my hands can no longer make these hammers and strings play for you, my heart will always sing to you.

Don't dare try to be heroes.

invalidation is crazy-making, and it is also at the root of gaslighting, where victims' feelings are purposely denied or manipulated in order to make them question their sanity.

Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him.

Making a good music video isn't easy. If it were, MTV would still be showing them instead of '16 and Pregnant,' which I assume is shot exclusively in Utah.

I believe in MasterPeace. World leaders cannot push back armed conflict alone. We need the whole world to make this happen.

No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.

I always feel like I'm forgetting things.

There are bands, like R.E.M., who want to have 17 records, and some are terrible and some are great. I don't know if people think like that anymore. Things are more atomized now.